New York's Naked Cowboy - who entertains the Times Square masses by strumming a guitar dressed in his undies - has taken exception to a Naked Cowgirl who he reckons is "ripping off his shtick".
That's how the New York Post summarises Sandy Kane's infringement of Robert Burck's Naked Cowboy trademark. Burck is demanding the …

Ye gods!

Warning needed

Wow Lester, you hinted at it in the final sentence but the link to the article with the embedded photograph should come with a warning written in letters 40-foot high. It's enough to make me feel quite ill (*shudder*).

For those who haven't been dumb enough to follow the link, don't. Just don't. Please, don't.

(@Sarah Bee: Before you smite me, understand I'd add this public health warning regardless of the photographed subject's gender. If you still want to smite me, look at the picture and consider that I am permanently scarred by the thought of the defendant lighting her breasts at a strip show)

He has a trademark on the Stetson?

There are whole large stretches of the US where Stetsons, cowboy hats, are as common as umbrellas in London. I will admit that most of these are at least 20 degrees of longitude west of NYC. They do tend to be areas where those of northern European descent need to ration their exposure to sunlight--there is a very good reason that Stetsons have big brims--so the naked part I guess he can claim.